Michelle Mahikoa was not on board when her husband brought up the idea of replacing their woodstove with a pellet boiler, but now, in the midst of their second winter with pellet heat, she says, “It’s the best decision we ever made!”

Many people have made the switch to pellet heat, but they're still feeding a pellet stove with bags and bags of wood pellets that have to be stacked, lugged, and poured. What if there was a better way?

Are you tempted by the idea of wood pellet heat, but are put off by the vision of bags upon bags of pellets that need to be stacked, carried, and dumped? And then you’re left with an empty bag that needs to be tossed in the trash. That doesn’t...